Some of you may recall my similar thread for SetCPU...
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1321136&page=8
Well I recently switched over from SetCPU to VC and am quite happy with it... figured I'd make a thread for users to share their experiences with the app...
First a few ground rules...
You must share the following info...
Kernel, Rom, Paid of Free version of the app, Screen on time, and all your settings in the fields in the app. Also include your average battery life on a full charge and if you're on the stock battery/charger or not. *Pics are encourages and appreciated.*
my config is in my sig...
I'm also using the paid version of VC which is awesome and I have undervolted quite a bit.
*The following voltages are being tested for stability*
Noop + Ondemand
100mhz-1200mhz
1200mhz: 1200 mV
1000mhz: 1050 mV
800mhz: 950 mV
500mhz: 850 mV
200mhz: 850 mV
100mhz: 825 mV
GPU 114-267mhz
114 @ 800
267 @ 950
I average about 24hrs - 26hrs of battery pending my use with about 3hrs of screen on time.
Purpose of this thread is to exchange information on how to get a better performing and more battery efficient phone using some tweaks.
P.S. Remember all phones are different and you should NEVER expect someone else's config to work for you. The purpose in this is to get a base line for tweaking and help out users with little or no knowledge about getting good battery life and also how to make their phone faster/more efficient.
Thanks
Nice to see a similar thread for the i777 model running Entropy's kernel as well. As I always say, caring is sharing lol
Crack on mate. This kind of info makes it so much easier for new users to get started with undervolting without having too many trial and error headaches.
If anyone wants to know my settings for Siyah and VC, then click the MagicConfig link in my sig.
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geko95gek said:
Nice to see a similar thread for the i777 model running Entropy's kernel as well.
Crack on mate. This kind of info makes it so much easier for new users to get started with undervolting without having too many trial and error headaches.
If anyone wants to know my settings for Siyah and VC, then click the MagicConfig link in my sig.
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Thanks for the support bud. Much appreciated.
vc-
1600mhz-1425mV
1400mhz-1275mV
1200mhz-1175mV
1000mhz-1075mV
800mhz-975mV
500mhz-875mV
200mhz-850mV
Lasts more than 24 hours almoust all the time.
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vc-
1600mhz-1425mV
1400mhz-1275mV
1200mhz-1175mV
1000mhz-1075mV
800mhz-975mV
500mhz-875mV
200mhz-850mV
Lasts more than 24 hours almoust all the time.
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great voltages... Thanks for sharing.
Is there anything you guys are doing to test each individual frequency? Or just setting it at that frequency?
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K Rich said:
Is there anything you guys are doing to test each individual frequency? Or just setting it at that frequency?
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Well personally I set a voltage then assign my min and Max to the frequency that corresponds to the newly set voltage and then run a benchmark to see if any issues occur.
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Alucardis666 said:
Well personally I set a voltage then assign my min and Max to the frequency that corresponds to the newly set voltage and then run a benchmark to see if any issues occur.
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Exactly what I've been doing. If anyone has any input, please do tell.
Cpu
200mhz-850mv
500mhz-875mv
800mhz-950mv
1000Mhz-1050mv
1200mhz-1150mv
Gpu
100Mhz-800mv
267Mhz-950mV
Not getting the battery life i would like, i still drop a few percent per hour when not doing anything, but im pretty sure thats because im on 2.3.6! ive been trying to do that gpu 3 step thing i keep hearing about via scripts but it seems to mess up my voltage settings!
anyway here they are! i cant wait to see what others have!
A question: Do you use both VC and SetCPU? Won't the governor setting in VC clash with the governor settings/advance settings and profiles set in SetCPU?
Fearing that, just today morning I switched to VC Lite from SetCPU (and froze SetCPU) as I wanted scheduler control.
VC Lite settings:
Scheduler: noop
Governor: conservative
Frequencies: 200-1000
Voltages:
1600 - 1400mV
1400 - 1250mV
1200 - 1200mV
1000 - 1100mV
800 - 1000mV
500 - 900mV
200 - 850mV
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Alucardis666 said:
Well personally I set a voltage then assign my min and Max to the frequency that corresponds to the newly set voltage and then run a benchmark to see if any issues occur.
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Do you simply run something like Antutu Benchmark? Or does VC Pro have stress testing?
K Rich said:
Exactly what I've been doing. If anyone has any input, please do tell.
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You'll find that you can run lower voltage on a forced single stepping than you can when the CPU has several steppings to choose from. For some reason the CPUs don't play well if you go to low or if it has to make to big of a jump between certain steppings.
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You'll find that you can run lower voltage on a forced single stepping than you can when the CPU has several steppings to choose from. For some reason the CPUs don't play well if you go to low or if it has to make to big of a jump between certain steppings.
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running Antutu to test each step?
jazzboyrules said:
A question: Do you use both VC and SetCPU? Won't the governor setting in VC clash with the governor settings/advance settings and profiles set in SetCPU?
Fearing that, just today morning I switched to VC Lite from SetCPU (and froze SetCPU) as I wanted scheduler control.
VC Lite settings:
Scheduler: noop
Governor: conservative
Frequencies: 200-1000
Voltages:
1600 - 1400mV
1400 - 1250mV
1200 - 1200mV
1000 - 1100mV
800 - 1000mV
500 - 900mV
200 - 850mV
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Do you simply run something like Antutu Benchmark? Or does VC Pro have stress testing?
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I no longer use setcpu and I do run quadranrt or antutu usually. pro version has no such stress test, but if you ask me... one should be implemented in a future update.
What amazes me is the difference a rom can make. Running Siyah 2.6.11 with the exact same VC settings (the ones in the OP of this thread) on CM7 nightly and ShoStock 1.9.1 and running Quadrant the results are about 1000-1500 points higher on cm7 nightly. From a user feel perspective they are both smooth as butter but I wonder what makes CM7 so much faster on the synthetic benchmark. Has to be a storage I/O thing or something. Battery life seems to be better for me on ShoStock though.
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What amazes me is the difference a rom can make. Running Siyah 2.6.11 with the exact same VC settings (the ones in the OP of this thread) on CM7 nightly and ShoStock 1.9.1 and running Quadrant the results are about 1000-1500 points higher on cm7 nightly. From a user feel perspective they are both smooth as butter but I wonder what makes CM7 so much faster on the synthetic benchmark. Has to be a storage I/O thing or something. Battery life seems to be better for me on ShoStock though.
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Yea, I too have noticed slight variations on different roms as well.
CM7 nightly 01/24/12
I/O Scheduler : SIO
Governor : ondemand
200Mhz-1200Mhz
1200Mhz : 1200mV
1000Mhz : 1100mV
800Mhz : 1000mV
500Mhz : 900mV
200Mhz : 875mV
Phone has been on for 6hr with 1hr 5mins screen on time and I'm sitting at 80%
Got 6520 in Antutu at 1200Mhz with this setup
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running Antutu to test each step?
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I used to test steps individually but again what's stable individually might not be stable with all the other steps included. I usually will quickly run through apps like mms, email, video, web, and also run a few BMs like antutu
A useful app with all the bells and whistles, with the capabilities of almost every utility app available is ROM Toolbox. I use it to edit voltage, CPU frequency, build.props, etc. Look into it if you're tired of trying hundreds of different programs for different features.
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geko95gek said:
Nice to see a similar thread for the i777 model running Entropy's kernel as well. As I always say, caring is sharing lol
Crack on mate. This kind of info makes it so much easier for new users to get started with undervolting without having too many trial and error headaches.
If anyone wants to know my settings for Siyah and VC, then click the MagicConfig link in my sig.
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I've been using those settings with shostock rom and I have to say it has been working wonderfully
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vc and set cpu
How do they get alone? Im afraid they might not like each other.
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So, I was wondering which would be the better to run on an OC kernal, SetCpu or Voltage Control. I'm using SetCpu (cause I paid for it lol) but notice that a lot of people talk about using Voltage Control instead of the later. Is this due to options, or is it simply because it's free? Any help is appreciated, and anybody that gives me a non-flaming serious response will get a thanks lol!
Running:
Trigger v2.7.2
Tigersblood v2 OC Kernal
(all statistics may change without notice lol!)
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So, I was wondering which would be the better to run on an OC kernal, SetCpu or Voltage Control. I'm using SetCpu (cause I paid for it lol) but notice that a lot of people talk about using Voltage Control instead of the later. Is this due to options, or is it simply because it's free? Any help is appreciated, and anybody that gives me a non-flaming serious response will get a thanks lol!
Running:
Trigger v2.7.2
Tigersblood v2 OC Kernal
(all statistics may change without notice lol!)
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I just installed Voltage Control 1 hour ago. So far I like it better than SetCpu which I also paid for it. Voltage Control has options to lower the votage in various steps. The voltages can be lowered without needing to overclock the CPU.
Installed it after installing Tigers Blood V2 kernel. But now I want to see how my battery life is undervolted and not overclocked.
I prefer voltage control but I also have the paid set cpu from before when I didn't know about voltage. Voltage let's you uv (undervolt) your frequencies to conserve some battery life.
Trigger + Tigerblood = Winning
Well it just depends on what your trying to do, in example, if you want to set profiles and Oc, I would use Setcpu, if your trying to undervolt your clock speed, and have Oc, I would use Voltage Control. I use both because I'm trying to Overclock, and have lower voltages
Wow guys! Thanks so much! This is really helpful info.
Bambam, what settings are you using with Tigers blood and Trigger?
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TXLunchbox said:
Wow guys! Thanks so much! This is really helpful info.
Bambam, what settings are you using with Tigers blood and Trigger?
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My settings, this might not work for your phone, every phone is different. Battery life seems great so far.
100mhz -50 = 900mv
200mhz -50 = 900mv
400mhz -50 = 1000mv
800mhz -50 = 1150mv
1000mhz -50 = 1225mv
1200mhz -25 = 1275mv
Good luck.
I personally use SetCpu for OC because i've been using it since the Nexus One and i think its just the better app b/c of ease of use
Again guys (or gals), I really appreciate all the feedback. Thanks have been given appropriately as promised. Sorry about the delay. This has been the first day that I could get to my laptop lol!
One thing I have noticed is that when SetCpu is set to "performance" the phone has difficulty pulling up the multi-tasker when long pressing the home button. This is how I get to Task Manager to clear things up before running benchmarks, so it's somewhat of a big deal to me. I'm sure there are other ways around it. I know on the stock OS that there is a Task Manager widget, but that has seemed to have disappeared with the ROMs that I've ran.
GTOJim said:
My settings, this might not work for your phone, every phone is different. Battery life seems great so far.
100mhz -50 = 900mv
200mhz -50 = 900mv
400mhz -50 = 1000mv
800mhz -50 = 1150mv
1000mhz -50 = 1225mv
1200mhz -25 = 1275mv
Good luck.
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Thanks for the info Jim, I'm really trying out different UV settings. I'm running just the standard right now cause other settings I've tried have caused me the SOD lol!
I don't know if this applies anymore but TW used to suggest the following setting when using SetCPU.
Conservative, do not set on boot-up. Minimum clock speed of 200mhz. Some phones would not wake up using the default of 100mz minimum. As I remember they advised against setting up any profiles.
Yeah, I've known about the no profiles thing. I think I've stuck to using Voltage Control as I haven't had nearly as much issues with it.
im running the extreme1.92x kernel oc'd at 1.4 but not sure about the best setup to save battery. i made one profile for charging i put in on max. not sure what to do with the advanced tab settings.
Profiles are really dependent on the user and their needs. The one piece of advice I can give you is to make sure you have a profile set up in case your phone starts to over heat. An OC'ed phone maxed during a charge may get quite toasty.
any suggestions?
Imo dont o/c. Let the kernel operate the way it is setup. O/c cause reboots, phone heating up, and freezes.
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I'm running Adrynalyne's 4.4.7 kernel and use the following and get really good battery life with no overheating and no lag. I don't do a screen of profile because the governor seems to handle that pretty well.
Normal 1024 max 245 min-Smartass governor
Profiles:
Battery < 25% 768 max 245 min-On demand Governor
Charging 1280 Max 245 min-Smartass governor
itsDollar said:
Profiles:
Battery < 25% 768 max 245 min-On demand Governor
Charging 1280 Max 245 min-Smartass governor
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Does that actually work?
I thought you had to choose a default governor and setup profiles accordingly.
I didn't know you could setup profiles with a governor that wasn't active or chosen on boot.
the thunderbolt is so fast already theres really no need to over clock. i left it at stock for normal, toned down to 768 when <30% battery and down to 368 when screen off. its a little slow for about half a second when waking up but the battery life is amazing. i can make it through a whole day without charging with moderate use. also running ziggys bfs kernel on virusrom and that added a ton of speed. way better than overclocking that drains your battery
im not asking about overclocking or profiles, just want to know about advanced settings. everything is set to default -1.
qman66 said:
im running the extreme1.92x kernel oc'd at 1.4 but not sure about the best setup to save battery. i made one profile for charging i put in on max. not sure what to do with the advanced tab settings.
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What Rom are you using?
Go to settings, menu, wireless networks, mobile networks and uncheck the third box. No need to have mobile data always on for most peeps . You'll still have 4G n everything, but gain a good 1-2 maybe more hrs (depending on use, kernels, governor settings, and I/O scheduling. I personally am running BAMF 1.6.2 with adryns 4.4.7 kernel, no set CPU, using tool box for that at 245mhz min - 1.024GHz max with ondemand governor and most importantly SIO Scheduler. Try these n you will have amazing performance and better battery life. Let me know you opinions
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No matter how precise I click, I can't get SetCPU to set 1024mhz. Closest I can get is 1036. What gives? lol
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No matter how precise I click, I can't get SetCPU to set 1024mhz. Closest I can get is 1036. What gives? lol
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Haha, I couldn't tell if you were being serious or not but each kernel has speeds at different increments. 1036 will probably be as close as you can get to 1024.
dopediculous said:
What Rom are you using?
I personally am running BAMF 1.6.2 with adryns 4.4.7 kernel, no set CPU, using tool box for that at 245mhz min - 1.024GHz max with ondemand governor and most importantly SIO Scheduler. Try these n you will have amazing performance and better battery life. Let me know you opinions
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My settings are identical except running 1.6.3, what does the SIO scheduler do or any of the schedulers for that matter?
mrsmith35sg said:
My settings are identical except running 1.6.3, what does the SIO scheduler do or any of the schedulers for that matter?
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You can use Wikipedia for the scheduler info. Once you look into it you'll know why I didn't wanna type all those details in here from my phone. Lol, but yeah set that to SIO, Take off ENABLE data always on. N you should be better let me know.
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rdompor said:
Haha, I couldn't tell if you were being serious or not but each kernel has speeds at different increments. 1036 will probably be as close as you can get to 1024.
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Go to manage applications and clear data from set CPU and when u go back in to set CPU you will have to hit auto detect n if ur kernel has that frequency you'll be able to click it.
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First off i take no credit for the virtuous oc daemon itself, it was developed by rmk40.
And credit goes to -viperboy- for the idea, i used his rom and really liked the oc daemon and saw the difference it makes. Check his rom out here. It has a nice interface to control the oc daemon and other features of the rom.
You can get more info here
DON'T use any apps to adjust cpu with this ie., setcpu, cpumaster, etc.
Ok, here is the deal flash the zip file the script will run by itself the only adjustment you have to make is the virtuous oc settings. This should work with any rom and probably any device i just don't have any other devices to test it on.
Here is how:
Open root explorer (or whatever file manager you use) and navigate to /system/etc/virtuous_oc, you will see 6 files named:
sleep_governor
sleep_max_freq
sleep_min_freq
wake_governor
wake_max_freq
wake_min_freq
These are the files you edit to your liking, i only edited wake_max_freq to read 1836000 or 1.8ghz
The two governor file have different settings and they are:
conservative
userspace
powersave
ondemand
performance
Again edit to your liking i left them ondemand myself seems to work good. I don't really know what the settings do exactly when it comes to these but they seem pretty self explanatory.
To see if it's working all you need to do is open terminal emulator or adb shell and type one of the following:
Current CPU frequency
Code:
cat /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpufreq/scaling_cur_freq
Current CPU governor
Code:
cat /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpufreq/scaling_governor
Current min CPU Freq
Code:
cat /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpufreq/scaling_min_freq
Current max CPU Freq
Code:
cat /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpufreq/scaling_max_freq
It autostarts using init.d, so MAKE SURE your rom supports init.d, if it doesn't you can still use it but it has to be started manually by entering the following in terminal emulator:
Code:
/system/xbin/virtuous_oc
If you overclock MAKE SURE your kernel supports it, I'm not responsible for any damage incurred
In the future i want to make an app to control the settings but i am still learning that part.
Big thanks to rmk40 for this awesome daemon and -viperboy- the bad ass idea !!
EDIT:
A basic rundown of the oc daemon is it scales up your cpu when you screen is on and scales it down when it is off, so your cpu is not overclocked continuously. It does save on battery as long as you don't get crazy with the overclocking.
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The frequencies are:
Underclock: 192000 384000 432000 486000 540000 594000 648000 702000 756000 810000 864000 918000 972000 1026000 1080000 1134000 1188000 (stock)
Overclock: 1188000 (stock) 1296000 1404000 1512000 1620000 1782000 1836000 1944000 2052000
There may be some extra ones not listed here. From doing basic math, it seems you have to go up or down in increments of 54,000 when adjusting the CPU speeds. So if you want to UC higher than 192000 but lower than 384000, then you SHOULD be able to add 54,000 to 192000 and use that, or subtract 54,000 from 384000 and go that route.
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Added my pcm controls to the downloads, this will underclock/overclock(soon i hope) your battery when the battery reaches a specified percent. See this post for more details: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1227938
Changelog:
8/11
-Added Juwe11 ram optimization script
-Added speed up SD hack (Set at 3072) Details here
8/14
-Added Uninstaller
8/24
-Added virtuous_oc_pcm
Sweetness! To OC or UC, do you need to to increase or decrease the processor speed by certain increments? If so, please add them the OP for all of us noobs.
Thanks!
Edit: Since you didn't reserve any additional posts, feel free to shoot me a PM if you want me to add anything to this post in the future.
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Sweetness! To OC or UC, do you need to to increase or decrease the processor speed by certain increments? If so, please add them the OP for all of us noobs.
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Basically you can set them to what you want within reason, the way i do it is
1836000 is 1.8ghz
1188000 is 1.1ghz
So if you just put a . in between the first 2 numbers its roughly the ghz so
1288000 would be roughly 1.2ghz, at least that's my understanding if i'm wrong i'm sure someone will correct me. I wouldn't go crazy and set it at 2288000 that might do some damage.
Woooohooooo!!!! Im going in. Thank you sir!
hTc Evo [3D]
smokin1337 said:
I wouldn't go crazy and set it at 2288000 that might do some damage.
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The phone would most likely reboot/crash.
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DDiaz007 said:
The phone would most likely reboot/crash.
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And die! Haha
Id hate to be the one tackling that script :/
hTc Evo [3D]
Why yes, I'll take one thank you.
Dude! Freakin' awesome! I've been hoping someone would create this. Thanks!
smokin1337 said:
Basically you can set them to what you want within reason, the way i do it is
1836000 is 1.8ghz
1188000 is 1.1ghz
So if you just put a . in between the first 2 numbers its roughly the ghz so
1288000 would be roughly 1.2ghz, at least that's my understanding if i'm wrong i'm sure someone will correct me. I wouldn't go crazy and set it at 2288000 that might do some damage.
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Actually, 1288000 is 1.3 rounded up and 118000 is the stock 1.2 speed, but I get what you're saying.......maybe I didn't do a good job of explaining myself. If you want 1.5, you can't set it at 150000......you'd have to set it at 1512000 (or something like that) because it must go up or down by fixed increments. I don't remember what the exact increments are, but I can look it up and post it if you'd like.
Edit: The frequencies are:
Underclock: 192000 384000 432000 486000 540000 594000 648000 702000 756000 810000 864000 918000 972000 1026000 1080000 1134000 1188000 (stock)
Overclock: 1188000 (stock) 1296000 1404000 1512000 1620000 1782000 1836000 1944000 2052000
There may be some extra ones not listed here. From doing basic math, it seems you have to go up or down in increments of 54,000 when adjusting the CPU speeds. So if you want to UC higher than 192000 but lower than 384000, then you SHOULD be able to add 54,000 to 192000 and use that, or subtract 54,000 from 384000 and go that route.
I haven't tried using this method yet, as I'm already OC'd using viperboy's script. Maybe someone else can test this and confirm it is accurate.
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I'm asking this purely to increase my own knowledge, but what does this do better than SetCPU or other overclocking solutions?
Thanks rugedraw i added the frequencies to the op.
clamknuckle said:
I'm asking this purely to increase my own knowledge, but what does this do better than SetCPU or other overclocking solutions?
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SetCPU can take up to several seconds to adjust, and it uses RAM also. A Daemon is instantaneous, and uses little to no RAM.
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clamknuckle said:
I'm asking this purely to increase my own knowledge, but what does this do better than SetCPU or other overclocking solutions?
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This is developed by Virtuous Unity for stability in OC the CPU, Set CPU uses some voltage to run and has been known to be unstable at times, this is the most stable way to control OC frequencies right from boot.
The Daemon works great (I have a version of this I'm testing on the MT4G at the moment) and there are benefits to using it, I would have to say it's important to spend some time reading information on Kernels to better understand what your using and the risks behind it.
Found Here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1143177
( Scroll to the 4th Post for full information on the Daemon )
State-of-the-art-solution
So we (more precisely rmk40) thought of a better solution.
He wrote a native C Daemon which changes the governors instantly without any lag.
This leads to major performance improvements right after turning on the screen and in the lockscreen.
But at the moment this solution is a little bit harder to configure. We are planing to make a GUI for this, so you get the same comfort as using SetCPU.
Nevertheless you can even now adjust the daemon to your needs.
Be aware that the daemon only works if all CPU tuner apps are deinstalled. Otherwise it deactivates itself.
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Thanks rugedraw i added the frequencies to the op.
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No worries.........glad I can help with the little stuff. However, it seems like basic math is too hard for me. The correct increments are 54,000 and NOT 48,000. After some careful review, some of the high end OC frequencies had typo's, as well. I changed the info in myl post, but please update the OP, as well. I'm sure most people will be referring to that.
Just set this up on Rewind 2.1 and it appears to be working awesome.. definitely seems smoother then using a screen off profile in setcpu..
What I don't get is why Google doesn't incorporate something like this in all Android builds. It seems there are many things that can be manipulated to improve battery life on Android devices but that these solutions are just being ignored. Anyhoo, I don't think I will ever use SetCPU again...
Useless without voltage control
So this will work with nets kernel, and not against it? Just use it instead of setcpu?
NCspecV81 said:
Useless without voltage control
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It definitely isn't useless without voltage control. I don't see how saving battery and using no system resources is useless. Plus, you cannot edit voltages on the E3D kernels yet, the sysfs HAVS interface needs to be implemented first.
-viperboy- said:
It definitely isn't useless without voltage control. I don't see how saving battery and using no system resources is useless. Plus, you cannot edit voltages on the E3D kernels yet, the sysfs HAVS interface needs to be implemented first.
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I believe him. Hell, I all those frequencies I posted came from the OC script he designed for his rom.........which is awesome.
Undervolting and profiles.
I have tried a crap ton of different undervolting setting, but none work
Also the profiles in set cpu don't seem to work for me. I have a few of them set and it always sits on the top one I need some guidence with both please!
Another thing my xda premium app isn't pushing my notafications yes its set
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Undervolting is a delicate process. It takes time to find the max undervolt that is stable. With that being said, try undervolting everything by the lowest amount which is -25mv. Check to see if that is stable. If so proceed to go further. Remember lower freq will typically undervolt farther than higher frequencies.
As far as profiles go your probably not using the priority values right. The higher priority is what determines which profile setcpu uses. So for instance if you want a safeguard against overheating, you could set the profile for when the cpu goes above 55C to throttle the processor way down. If you set this profile to 100(max) it will overide all other profiles at 98, 99, 75, 50...etc. Also this may be obvious to some but be sure to tick(enable) the profiles button. If thats not ticked then it doesnt matter how many profiles you have set up. It simply wont use them.
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Undervolting is a delicate process. It takes time to find the max undervolt that is stable. With that being said, try undervolting everything by the lowest amount which is -25mv. Check to see if that is stable. If so proceed to go further. Remember lower freq will typically undervolt farther than higher frequencies.
As far as profiles go your probably not using the priority values right. The higher priority is what determines which profile setcpu uses. So for instance if you want a safeguard against overheating, you could set the profile for when the cpu goes above 55C to throttle the processor way down. If you set this profile to 100(max) it will overide all other profiles at 98, 99, 75, 50...etc. Also this may be obvious to some but be sure to tick(enable) the profiles button. If thats not ticked then it doesnt matter how many profiles you have set up. It simply wont use them.
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When I was on alien rom, I tried 25 on all and it restarted after like a minute. What worked for me was 25 25,50,50,75,75,100 fromm bottom to top. I tried it with cm7 and total no go lol
Lemme tryi 25 on all and see what I get and I didn't know that. They all werent working, so I set them all to 100 lmao, I understand that now
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Aparently its been running 125,125,50,75,75,75,75bottom to top cm7 with 1.3 kernel.
It did restart a couple min ago randomly. Will keep posted
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Glad your getting some results. If it restarts even once it means at least one of your undervolted freq isn't stable. With your settings I would wager its in the uper freq considering your undervolt in the lower freq isn't too extreme. You might try decreasing the undervolt for your upper freq to -50 -50 -50 starting at the top. Might help to stabilize bc higher freq just require more voltage. If that proves to be stable continue trying to reduce the lower freq as much as possible. Mainly bc if you set your profiles right(screen off is the most important really) your phone will spend the majority of its time on the 200mhz freq. Thus the more undervolt on that freq should theoretically give the most benefit from undervolting. This is just all from personal experience. I'm no guru. Just spent way too much time adjusting voltages on phones . And of course having the upper freq undervolted as much as possible cant hurt either.
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Glad your getting some results. If it restarts even once it means at least one of your undervolted freq isn't stable. With your settings I would wager its in the uper freq considering your undervolt in the lower freq isn't too extreme. You might try decreasing the undervolt for your upper freq to -50 -50 -50 starting at the top. Might help to stabilize bc higher freq just require more voltage. If that proves to be stable continue trying to reduce the lower freq as much as possible. Mainly bc if you set your profiles right(screen off is the most important really) your phone will spend the majority of its time on the 200mhz freq. Thus the more undervolt on that freq should theoretically give the most benefit from undervolting. This is just all from personal experience. I'm no guru. Just spent way too much time adjusting voltages on phones . And of course having the upper freq undervolted as much as possible cant hurt either.
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25,50,50,50,50,75,75
Still getting a reboot:'(
Only good thing about the reboot is it turns on instantly
PROFILES CONFIRMED WORKING trying to indwrvolt this thing
I think I'm gonna order another battery too bc this one isn't getting the 16 hours it was, I cant say much bc I'm screwing with the settings hardcore xD I will show.all settings in a sec
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Put blah there so it would post lol. Also going to download a stress test or quadrent thing to test the stress and find maximum uv
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Undervolting COMPLETE=D
QUAD SCORE! OCED 1.3 CM7
Right now I'm thinking my battery life is going to be amazig and if I turned the data off when not using it... omg I would last like 2 straight days prolly=D
So pumped to test everything morrow!!
Side note:800mhz or above wont go past 75 >:/
Had really important question to ask you but forgot
Also tried putting 215 to 275 that was a no go lol. My question was is there a battery manager and info like the stock one for cm7?!!!
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Smittyzz said:
Undervolting COMPLETE=D
QUAD SCORE! OCED 1.3 CM7
Right now I'm thinking my battery life is going to be amazig and if I turned the data off when not using it... omg I would last like 2 straight days prolly=D
So pumped to test everything morrow!!
Side note:800mhz or above wont go past 75 >:/
Had really important question to ask you but forgot
Also tried putting 215 to 275 that was a no go lol. My question was is there a battery manager and info like the stock one for cm7?!!!
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well my battery was draining mad quick so I am not overclocking It anymore unless I want to show off or play games lol, lost 20% in one hour. Now its stable and undervolted
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First off, regarding SetCpu and over / undercloking, dev has said it'll only underclock/overclock ONE core at a time. It's a bug and he's working on it from what I understand. If both cores are needed to be in use at the same time, no over / underclocking will be applied. Secondly, profiles work as they should in SetCpu, so that's a problem on your end. Third, the undervolting can't be more than 100mv differnce between jumps. See screen shot.
http://www.multiupload.com/YUK0KPXZLJ
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First off, regarding SetCpu and over / undercloking, dev has said it'll only underclock/overclock ONE core at a time. It's a bug and he's working on it from what I understand. If both cores are needed to be in use at the same time, no over / underclocking will be applied. Secondly, profiles work as they should in SetCpu, so that's a problem on your end. Third, the undervolting can't be more than 100mv differnce between jumps. See screen shot.
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I understand the 100 thing and I got the undervolting and profiles done. I hope he gets both cores supported soon and thank you dmfor the reply
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Yea Im skeptical about not setcpu not having support for dual cores... Did some searching on the net and couldnt find anything to support that. As far as not the tegra 2 not being able to do over 100mv jumps. That's not true. My lowest frequency is 600mv (-150) and my next frequency is at 750mv. That's a 150mv difference right there... And I'm completely stable. Its entirely dependent on your processor. They are all different and respond differently to undervolting. You just have to find what works for you. Generally though the lesser the jumps in voltage will give you more stability.
a good kernal helps too im useing faux123 v2.0 0C1.3 its undervolts quite well
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Hi, i have just flashed the new HyperDroid v5.2.21 (Full wipe) and i wanted to know if i can overclock my SGS2 from 1.2ghz to 1.5ghz, if so how do i go about it?
Do i need to change the current kernel (XWL1)?
P.S ive heard its stable, but does it drain the battery?
Thanks XDA Community
Hello there. Yep you can overclock but you need a kernel that supports it. [url="http://gokhanmoral.com]SiyahKernel[/url] is a good choice. With that, use the Voltage Control app from the market.
However I know nothing about battery draining or stability... dualcore 1.2GHz mobile processor is more than enough for me, and the phone can get pretty hot under maximum load, same with the MALI GPU which can be overclocked to 400MHz (but since it has 4 cores and the phone has no active heatsinks it could get risky...)
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Hello there. Yep you can overclock but you need a kernel that supports it. [url="http://gokhanmoral.com]SiyahKernel[/url] is a good choice. With that, use the Voltage Control app from the market.
However I know nothing about battery draining or stability... dualcore 1.2GHz mobile processor is more than enough for me, and the phone can get pretty hot under maximum load, same with the MALI GPU which can be overclocked to 400MHz (but since it has 4 cores and the phone has no active heatsinks it could get risky...)
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I think AndroidMeda kernel already supports OverClocking...using this ROM for a quite long time...
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Hi, i have just flashed the new HyperDroid v5.2.21 (Full wipe) and i wanted to know if i can overclock my SGS2 from 1.2ghz to 1.5ghz, if so how do i go about it?
Do i need to change the current kernel (XWL1)?
P.S ive heard its stable, but does it drain the battery?
Thanks XDA Community
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Yes you can overclock and you can stick with the kernel that comes with Hyperdroid. I am currently Overclocking 1.6ghz max and 200 min. Not touching voltages though. Use No-Frills app to set it up. My advice though to you no point in overclocking as 1.2ghz is good enough as it is..And the kernel you are on is good enough...It is stable depending what voltage frequencies you use..I say leave it as they are. And like i said download No-Frills from the market..Set your clock speeds and that should be it..Choose a governor and off you go
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Yes you can overclock and you can stick with the kernel that comes with Hyperdroid. I am currently Overclocking 1.6ghz max and 200 min. Not touching voltages though. Use No-Frills app to set it up. My advice though to you no point in overclocking as 1.2ghz is good enough as it is..And the kernel you are on is good enough...It is stable depending what voltage frequencies you use..I say leave it as they are. And like i said download No-Frills from the market..Set your clock speeds and that should be it..Choose a governor and off you go
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No-Frills ? AndroidMeda Developers recommend Voltage Control (and I personally like it much more than No-Frills, too) with their kernel.
+ Here is a small guide : http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1036020 how to test your OC Settings, I use it when I am testing new voltages.
Thanks for the replies i will try out the no-frills app and see what happens. What would you say is the best governor to use? and wouldnt you recommend going over 200min?
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No-Frills ? AndroidMeda Developers recommend Voltage Control (and I personally like it much more than No-Frills, too) with their kernel.
+ Here is small guide : http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1036020 how to test your OC Settings, I use it when I am testing new voltages.
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Pongster uses No-Frills. The rest of the team uses Voltage Control. And to avoid any freezes or random reboots leave the voltage settings as they are till you get to grips with the overclocking. Hence why i suggested No-Frills as currently Voltage Control for me kept on reverting back to stock frequencies..And yes there is a way round it but it is to much of an effort
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Thanks for the replies i will try out the no-frills app and see what happens. What would you say is the best governor to use? and wouldnt you recommend going over 200min?
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I am currently using ondemand and Sio as scheduler. You can not go wrong with that. Like i said..choose a governor choose a scheduler and let them do the work...I also do recommend Voltage control but No-frills is simple and does the job for you. And no i would recommend either go to 100min or stick with 200...I am currently on 1.6max and 200 min
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Thanks for the replies i will try out the no-frills app and see what happens. What would you say is the best governor to use? and wouldnt you recommend going over 200min?
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I personally use Sleepy governor and noop scheduler, but everyone uses different governors and schedulers...
I think 200 min is OK...100 MHz is too low and 500 is too high...
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Pongster uses No-Frills. The rest of the team uses Voltage Control. And to avoid any freezes or random reboots leave the voltage settings as they are till you get to grips with the overclocking. Hence why i suggested No-Frills as currently Voltage Control for me kept on reverting back to stock frequencies..And yes there is a way round it but it is to much of an effort
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I have -75mV (previously had -50mV) and I haven't ever had any freeze or random reboot...
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I personally use Sleepy governor and noop scheduler, but everyone uses different governors and schedulers...
I think 200 min is OK...100 MHz is too low and 500 is too high...
I have -75mV (previously had -50mV) and I haven't ever had any freeze or random reboot...
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Dude..he is just learning...let him take baby steps first before he jumps right up and wants to walk.... Let him follow what i suggested and then he can come back and ask for more help once he tries his new settings out...I remember you use to ask a lot of questions before..And i said the same thing..baby steps first before you start walking
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Dude..he is just learning...let him take baby steps first before he jumps right up and wants to walk.... Let him follow what i suggested and then he can come back and ask for more help once he tries his new settings out...I remember you use to ask a lot of questions before..And i said the same thing..baby steps first before you start walking
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Oh...he has just 6 posts...I didn't notice it...sorry. Then I will suggest No-Frills, too.
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Oh...he has just 6 posts...I didn't notice it...sorry. Then I will suggest No-Frills, too.
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Good..Now thanks wont hurt
Thanks for the support guys, and yeah i am new to this whole android/rooting scene so no-frills looks like a nice simple and easy option for now until i get to grips with things. i will try out the differen governors and schedulers and see whats best for me.
P.S Neo is yours running stable at the maximum 1.6ghz?
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Thanks for the support guys, and yeah i am new to this whole android/rooting scene so no-frills looks like a nice simple and easy option for now until i get to grips with things. i will try out the differen governors and schedulers and see whats best for me.
P.S Neo is yours running stable at the maximum 1.6ghz?
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Yes my friend pretty stable. Listen go here http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1369817 and read regarding governors and schedulers..Pretty straight forward and good explanations...And i am running the latest hyperdroid version but i am using Siyah kernel with thunderbolt tweaks...For you i would use the kernel that comes with the rom and use the default governor that comes with the rom...When i was on previous kernel version i always use to use Kenobi...Not sure if they have it there or if Pongs removed it but either that or solo...
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Yes my friend pretty stable. Listen go here http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1369817 and read regarding governors and schedulers..Pretty straight forward and good explanations...And i am running the latest hyperdroid version but i am using Siyah kernel with thunderbolt tweaks...For you i would use the kernel that comes with the rom and use the default governor that comes with the rom...When i was on previous kernel version i always use to use Kenobi...Not sure if they have it there or if Pongs removed it but either that or solo...
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Kenobi was removed and solo was renamed to sleepy.
which governer is best with overclocking 1.6ghz
mzeshanhakeem said:
which governer is best with overclocking 1.6ghz
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i am using ondemand
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i am using ondemand
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Neo when i overclock to 1.6ghz with 200min using the lulzactive governer and SIO scheduler my phone freezes i have to reboot it?
whats the best setup to run 1.6ghz so its stable for everyday use?
P.S anyone know if it drains the battery by overclocking?
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Neo when i overclock to 1.6ghz with 200min using the lulzactive governer and SIO scheduler my phone freezes i have to reboot it?
whats the best setup to run 1.6ghz so its stable for everyday use?
P.S anyone know if it drains the battery by overclocking?
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change to ondemand governor when overclocking
Neo3000 said:
change to ondemand governor when overclocking
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And what scheduler?
Thanks
Harvinder09 said:
And what scheduler?
Thanks
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stick with SIO